How to Check Air Pressure

okay today I'm going to show you how to check the air pressure in your tires if you're getting a symbol like that that means one or more of your tires is low on air and over to get that to go off you're gonna need an accurate reading in order to get an accurate reading you want to get a digital tire gauge this would be something to invest in right for a couple reasons you need it to be accurate but also if you I have my own air compressor at home but if you don't and you're going to like a gas station to get it filled up you have to put in coins or however they do it now I'm not sure but if you have to put in coins it's running and you got like two minutes or whatever and you're just running around your car trying to figure out which one's actually low so before you do that you just pull up pull out your digital gauge go around and then you can know exactly which tire you need to fill up right okay so let's get started you want to make sure your gauge is that on psi because that's what you use in the United States I think it's pretty standard there's a couple other options and I'll show you at the end how to use this okay so you want to unscrew unscrew that the cap that goes on the end you've probably seen that make just two basic okay so it says thirty-one so now we just take this end we put it on here I'm gonna go like this there's a little gauge that comes out of here but it's not that accurate okay I know I keep - 34 that's thirty two point five 34 there we go put the cap back on okay there you go and then just so you know you can find out what your tires should be kept at what the PSI should be there's two ways you can wash three ways you could google it you could look in your owners manual or you actually there's actually another way you can look in your driver's side door you open it up there's a little sticker there that'll actually tell you what the size of your tires are and then what the PSI is that's recommended for them okay so now as long as we get all of our tires matching at the at the right psi and then you drive a little bit this light will go off okay and so stay tuned at the end of this video I'm gonna show you a couple other things too i'ma show you where that where to find that sticker and then I'm gonna show you what the tires what the numbers mean on your tiger and then I'm gonna show you how to use this gauge alright okay I'm gonna show you where you can find what the air pressure should be in your driver's side door just inside your driver's to the door never mind how dirty my car is okay no jokes about that all right that's the sticker right there it'll tell you what the PSI they recommend 32 I keep mine at 34 but shows you the tire sizes as well as the as well as the psi okay I'm gonna show you how to use this tire gauge because you want to make sure it's on psi we live in the United States and I think there's some places that must use the other ones I've never even heard of them before I had this gauge so you just want to make sure you're on psi so you push this button here to turn it on okay and right now it's actually coming up that's psi you can see that right in the corner but if I click on it again it'll say var or kPa you don't want those right you're gonna get wonky numbers if you do that so make sure you're on psi otherwise you're gonna be all messed up you got to start there okay okay I thought I'd go ahead and just throw this in at the end of this video just to tell you what the numbers on the tire mean in case you're in case you're interested and when you go to buy a tire they're gonna ask you not only the size of the rim but what what size tire they can figure it out based on if you tell them the make and model of your car to know what year and then also in that on that sticker in the driver's side it'll tell you the size of the tire - or in your manual okay so but just real quick just to you in case you're curious - 15 means the width in millimeters of your tire okay 60 is the percentage of the width so it's a 60% it's 60% of that - 15 which ends up in this case be 129 iron 29 millimeters because you can adjust that profile right like the guys that drive around with a lot of bass playing out of they're out of their cars they tend to have a low profile tire and because they look cool they just don't wear as long okay that's what that is the R stands for radial and then 16 is the size of the rim in inches okay just in case you were curious I thought I'd share that